I have 2 laptops, both running identically configured Precise Puppy 5.4.2, one a Toshiba, the other a Compaq. I also use 2 identical external 2 TB USB-docked hard drives formatted as NTFS in RAID 1 array (mirroring each other.) I've had no problems at all using the hard drives with either laptop until recently, using the Compaq, suffered a power outage. Now when I try to mount the drives on the Compaq, which appear as usual on the desktop, I get this warning message in a red box:

"The ntfs-3g driver was unable to mount the NTFS
partition and returned this error message:
fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option
So, the inbuilt kernel NTFS driver has been used
to mount the partition read-only."
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I checked the fstab file in both computers, and they are identical, the contents of which is:

The drives still mount fine (read-write) on the Toshiba, but read only on the Compaq. Does anyone know anything I can do to remedy this situation, i.e. be able to mount read-write on the Compaq? Sincere thanks for any help! I've installed Puppy on both computers' internal hard drives, so they are both dual boot with Windows XP (which I never use anymore now that I can do whatever I want with the apps I have installed on Puppy, which I love.Last edited by revbish on Mon 28 Jan 2013, 18:25; edited 1 time in total

It sounds like perhaps one or more files have been written to the directory used for the mount point when nothing was mounted. Have a look at that directory before trying to mount the drive. If you find stuff there, move it out. Then try mounting.

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